Need a new washing machine? You may be able to save some serious cash if you can limp your old one along for a couple of more weeks - or fill your pocket with quarters for a trip to the coin laundromat.

Arizonans are having a tougher time managing credit card and mortgage debt than consumers in most other states, according to first-quarter data compiled by credit and information management company TransUnion.

An alarming number of Arizonans eat badly, never exercise and stress constantly, and, as a result, consider themselves in declining health.

Higher education officials in Arizona say the percentage of people in the state with bachelor’s degrees is rising.

 Valley residents out of work six months or longer don’t have to worry about losing their unemployment insurance benefits for another five weeks under a $10 billion measure passed by the U.S. Senate late Tuesday and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

Two Roskamp Sun Health Life Care Communities residences in the West Valley recently earned top-10 ranking from Arizonans in Ranking Arizona: The Best of Arizona Business 2010.

WASHINGTON — Not all of a president's political statements in the State of the Union address are made from the podium. Often, the seating arrangement in the visitor's gallery where the president's spouse sits also makes a significant statement.

More than 57,000 unemployed Arizonans will be notified this week of their eligibility for additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits.

The 2009 legislative session was dominated by work on a balanced state budget, and yet failed to produce one. It's against this fiscal backdrop that the subject of Arizona's gaming policy has come due for review.

The Obama administration’s efforts to turn around the nation’s stalled auto industry drew plenty of skepticism from Arizonans Monday.

Getting There: Traffic jams don’t have to be a fact of life in the East Valley. We just have to pull off the road. That thought struck me last week as I read a report touting the need for more mass transit by the Arizona PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) Education Fund. The paper can be found at www.arizonapirg.org.

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - Mexican authorities say two U.S. tourists drowned when a wave swept them out to sea in the Baja California peninsula.

PHOENIX - A salmonella food-poisoning outbreak that has sickened more than 1,000 people nationwide since April has infected at least 49 Arizonans, authorities said.

Nationwide, about one in five individuals smokes. That rate holds true in our state, where nearly 19 percent of Arizonans use tobacco.

Thousands of Arizonans have had their economic stimulus payments confiscated because of outstanding federal and state debts.

The number of families receiving food stamps in Maricopa County has soared 15 percent in the past year and nearly doubled since 2002. Statewide, the figures are much the same, with nearly one in 10 Arizonans on food stamps, giving the state the distinction of having among the fastest-growing rolls in the country.

Arizonans fear for their economic futures. They’re afraid jobs will become scarcer and recession is on the horizon, according to the latest Rocky Mountain Poll by the Behavioral Research Center of Arizona.

As hundreds of thousands of Southern California residents are forced out of their homes by raging wildfires, East Valley residents are rushing in to help battle the blazes and try to make life a little easier in this time of crisis for our border state neighbors.

Queen Creek couple Michelle and Morris Benoun moved to Arizona last year with hopes of escaping California’s exorbitant housing costs and finally buying a home for their two children.